Ancient Wonders

The Eqyptian pyramids and the Great Wall of China - what do they have in common ?



Beside being the famous duo of the seven wonders, they were built without the luxury of modern day machinery.
Sheer manual labour, grit, sweat and blood. No cranes, no lifts, no bulldozers and no excavators. And no professional engineers from the top universities.


It took 20 years to construct a pyramid with 100,000 forced labourers.
And millions over 1,000 years for the great wall.
Is the modern man with state of the art machines able to carry out these similiar projects ?

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Many civil engineers suggest that modern man does not possess the structural genius required to build the Great Pyramid even today. Forget about building a new wall of China, as human rights and cost will ensure the project will never see light.

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Until you stand in front of the Great Pyramid in Giza everything you read about it is just theory. Once you see it in person, lots of those theories begin to simply vanish into thin air, so say Craig B. Smith author of his book "Building The Great Pyramid". So, how big is the pyramid ?

The base length of the Great Pyramid is calculated as 230.33 meters or 756 feet. Its height is146.59 meters or 481 feet. The angle of inclination or slope of its faces  are 51° 50' 40".

A total of over 2,300,000 blocks of limestone and granite were used in its construction with the average block weighing 2.5 tons and none weighing less than 2 tons. Till this day no one is able to give a clear picture how the Eygptians manage to move these blocks progressively up to the top.